Poetry Runs Through These Veins
...There is poetry that runs freely through these veins
Authentic eccentric even society could never change.
For the poetry that runs through these veins
Comes from years of criticism, rejection a...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, imagery, inspiration, inspirational, poems,
Form: Free verse
VOGON SOUPSTERS: Gangsters of Poetry!
...Here, at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
Poetrysoup is on the menu!
And to save our sacred website, perhaps the world ...
We must entertain and enter vague conspicuous contests ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, rude, sometimes, wisdom,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Wordy
...Often too much flash
and not enough substance
I mean, I like dessert as much
as the next guy...but please be
mindful, of ones own poetic
waste/waist-line
Of course, each to his/her lyric
o...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, humorous, imagery, inspirational, poems,
Form: Free verse
THE BEN!
...
Phonetically that’s what my name
means in Japanese, I’ve been told.
My name has a synonym.
My name is in the Bible.
Maybe one day, folks will say,
“Holy Ben!”
My mentor also ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, crazy, me, muse,
Form: Bio
Categories:
phonetically, success,
Form: Alliteration
Macab'z Poetic Cant
....
Slipping twixt mine dukes digits
hern pretty
moaning
Beguiling mine
her Marabou sto...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, allegory, dark,
Form: Free verse
Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye and Ai Ai My Sore Eyes
...Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye
Criss-Cross Acrostic:
Note: *Construe as “words” not as “letters”: Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed; Lines 2 and 4 read alike reversed; likewise vertically...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, word play,
Form: Acrostic
Gag Reflex Iz
....
Past hern Leabeeyah
hern ither
whence lexis cannot be
dislodged
Mine
*Sad to witness this second occurrence...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Phonetically Speaking
...Munday, Toosday, Whensday, Thirstday
Followed by Fryday, Sataday, and Sonday
Is there a reason
What about the seasons
Won't go there, my braino will become frayed...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, allusion,
Form: Limerick
A Little To the Left
...thinking i hung
my heart in
the correct
place
i realized it like
a picture frame
needs to be
just right
so looking at
an x-ray to my
dismay saw
my body's
wall and yes
something was...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Poet's Faculty Meeting
...Faculty meeting. Formidably flippantly fortuitously fluffy and forgetful.
I began to write a little list of F words, because I was in the F word mood.
Frilly. Free-ha-ha. Feast. Forget-me-knots. Fa...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Fabricated Faeries Philosophies
...Forevermore, this fantastical
free verse features
a fortuitous tale
featuring forty-four flirty
frilly fabricated faeries
fractionally forsaken,
forever fictionalized
philosophically and pho...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, fairy,
Form: Alliteration
Could I Please Have My Coffee First
...I always wake up angry.
Every time.
Every single solitary time.
I'm not joking.
And I jump out of bed enraged.
Sophie Dog wakes up angry too.
She growls at me, as I pull her covers off.
I woul...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, identity, judgement, perspective, poems,
Form: Free verse
High Noon
...The two men stood in the dusty street,
it was inevitable that they should meet,
suddenly one of them slumped to his knees,
justice had provided one of life' s certainties.
The Marshal strode to...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, adventure, america, high school,
Form: Free verse
Bent English
...
My speech ain’t elegantly refined,
my words don’t dress up none too properly
Simply cloth words with no aristocratic design,
just plain, unassuming ghetto vocalese
Though I’m very ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
phonetically, culture, spoken word, truth,
Form: Bio
Related Poems